America BMX Corp. Acquires Rights to Bottema; Prepares to Launch Retro Fork Line
American BMX Company (ABC) signed a long-term licensing agreement with Jeff Bottema, adding the iconic BMX fork brand Jeff Bottema Forks to its portfolio. ABC recently announced it bought Race Inc. Quality BMX Products, another legendary old school BMX brand. Bottema is a BMX racing legend whose career spanned the mid-1970s through the mid-1980s. In 1979, he launched Jeff Bottema Forks with a heavy-duty fork design that featured thicker tubing and legs that extended about one inch below the dropouts. The look was unique, and the forks immediately found a place in the booming BMX market. Unfortunately, a series of relationships with shady business partners doomed the fork along with Bottema’s dream of having his own company.
Source BMX / CULT Crew / Battle of the Brands / CHALLENGES Edit 2020
Source BMX / CULT Crew / Battle of the Brands / CHALLENGES Edit 2020: 4th place!
Name: Matthew Mitchell
Age: 26
Hometown: San Diego, CA
Hook-up: Plants Basically
The FAT FAVs list:
Spot to ride— I like street. Any high schools or colleges are usually my go to.
BMX video— I get super nostalgic when I watch Mutiny’s “Let’s get mystical” and Deadline always gets me wanting to ride.
Website— YouTube
Web Video— I have to put 2, the Fiend promo and Federal’s “FTS”
Food— Ramen
Person on Instagram— Will Smith
Travel destination— Ecuador
Riders to ride with— Garrett Reynolds, JJ Palmere, Tony Niceler, the OB locals.
Danish National Championship - Copenhagen, Denmark - 03 October 2020
Elite Men:
1 OLSSON Kasper DEN 60 points
2 SARDAG Jakob DEN 45
3 HØJSGAARD Simon Juul DEN 40
4 WÖHLK Andreas DEN 35
5 THERKELSEN Jimmi DEN 30
Elite Women:
1 BALLE Rikke DEN 60 points
2 BALLE Dorte DEN 45
Elliott Perez, Bobby Jefferson, John Diaz, and Chris Kerrigan visited Chicago a bunch of times over a couple months and got real busy in the streets. Enjoy!
Barbero wins 2° Zoo BMX Pro Challenge, Freestyle Park contest Italy.
Results 2° Zoo BMX Pro Challenge, Freestyle Park contest - Priero - Ceva CN - 03 October 2020
Men Park:
1 BARBERO Alessandro ITA 200 points
2 DHERS Daniel VEN 160
3 WEDEMEIJER Daniel NED 130
4 PALA Gabriele ITA 110
5 BETTASSA Emanuel ITA 90
6 BROŽA Jan CZE 70
7 BENETTON Elia ITA 50
8 ORSINI Maxime FRA 30
9 HABADA Martin CZE 20
10 CERESATO Christian ITA 10
Women Park:
1 DUCARROZ Nikita SUI 200 points
Hello everybody! My name is Josh Betley and I was a professional bike rider for 10 years. It was the best time of life. Due to the economy, my long time sponsors Felt bikes and Osiris shoes had to end our relationship.
Name: Tom Tucker
Sponsors: Factory Full Tilt, Radio Raceline, Fly Racing, Promax Components, Tioga, HT Components, BMX International.
Mechanic: Tsquared Bike co
9 times world champion at age 15. Where (what countries) has BMX taken you so far?
Tom Tucker: Countries I have raced in so far are New Zealand, USA, England, Colombia, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Netherlands and Australia of course.
Congrats on winning the 2020 Sam WIlloughby Medallist award. Did it come as a surprise?
Welcome to the Am Team Dylan!
Name: Arne Kattert
Age: 23
Hometown: Bremen, Germany
Hook-ups/Sponsors: All In BMX (@allinbmxco), Alliance BMX Shop (@alliance_bmx)
---The FAT favorite list---
-Spot to ride: Geltendorf (Gedo Ramps)
-BMX video: Vans Presents: Homestead I BMX I VANS
-Website: freedombmx.de
-Web video: Markit Zero
-Food: Wraps
-Twitter to follow: Too young for twitter
-Person on Instagram: @organic_bmxmemes
-Travel destination: San Diego, California
After doing a BMX 'zine for ten years (1987 - 1996) FATBMX made it on the internet. The year was 1998. Here to stay.